Breaking News🇬🇧⚖️: "You and your family were given every opportunity to practice your religion in peace in Manchester where you were raised. Instead you ignored this and followed Islamic terrorism planning to kill and brutally murder British military members". Sentencing Bashir, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him that by August last year he had become a "firmly committed jihadist". He and Al-Shamie were "equally engaged" in planning an attack on a British military target "in which you and he expected to kill and be killed", she said. She rejected his claim to a probation officer that he no longer held extremist views and regretted his actions. The judge said: "I consider you remain dangerous. You have given no grounds that your attitude has really changed at all." Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove his friend Jihad Al-Shamie on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK's Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August 2025. Weeks after that journey, Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police after carrying out the Heaton Park Synagogue attack, in which two Jewish men were killed. Bashir, from Cheetham Hill, was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to one count of preparing an act of terrorism. Personally I think terrorists of this kind should never be released into the public as the threat they pose to innocent troops and civilians alike carries too great a risk of mass murder.